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cali

(114,904 posts)
Tue May 10, 2016, 03:05 PM May 2016

Oh dear. Heidi Cruz Likens Husband's Campaign to Efforts to End Slavery

Drawing a parallel between the long-term efforts of her husband's supporters and the fight to end slavery, Heidi Cruz said Tuesday that it took "a lot longer than four years" for the latter fight to be successful.

On a conference call with the campaign's National Prayer Team, Heidi Cruz portrayed Ted Cruz's presidential campaign, which ended a week ago, as one part of a broader journey similar to the abolition of slavery.

“I don’t want you to feel like any of this was in vain," Heidi Cruz said. "I believe in the power of prayer. This doesn’t always happen on the timing of man, and God does not work in four-year segments."

"Be full of faith and so full of joy that this team was chosen to fight a long battle," she continued. "Think that slavery — it took 25 years to defeat slavery. That is a lot longer than four years."

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https://www.texastribune.org/2016/05/10/heidi-cruz-likens-husbands-efforts-slavery/

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Oh dear. Heidi Cruz Likens Husband's Campaign to Efforts to End Slavery (Original Post) cali May 2016 OP
LOL WHUT Blue_Tires May 2016 #1
Is he trying to free his followers from secular indentured servitude? haele May 2016 #4
Well, crap. I guess that means truebluegreen May 2016 #2
Aaaaah yes, the Christian Persecution Syndrome at work ... Myrina May 2016 #3
Screw Harriet Tubman.... AZ Mike May 2016 #5
Oh god JustAnotherGen May 2016 #6
Say what??! That is the 9/11 of comparisons....... Guy Whitey Corngood May 2016 #7
Nice post...Hitler! pinboy3niner May 2016 #8
well, its kind of apples and oranges Takket May 2016 #9
Defeating slavery = keep the fight going = give my husband more money LastLiberal in PalmSprings May 2016 #10
his campaign is an abolition movement Enrique May 2016 #11
It took 25 years to defeat slavery? Is this the Michelle Bachman history course? kwassa May 2016 #12
Heidi, just, please....stop talking! Coventina May 2016 #13
Maybe she's woozy from the blows to the head that Ted delivered last week. Yavin4 May 2016 #14
I had a similar thought. Coventina May 2016 #16
Those poor corporations. Octafish May 2016 #15
Isn't she the one God trolled that Ted should run? JHB May 2016 #17

haele

(12,682 posts)
4. Is he trying to free his followers from secular indentured servitude?
Tue May 10, 2016, 03:12 PM
May 2016

He and his fellow travelers are certainly a plague upon us.
Please lead your followers out of America into whatever hell of a Promised Land you think you deserve! We'll let your people go!

(Freeing the slaves like Moses did? That's the only meaning from the coded talk I can discern)

Haele

 

truebluegreen

(9,033 posts)
2. Well, crap. I guess that means
Tue May 10, 2016, 03:11 PM
May 2016

that Cruz' epic defeat by a vulgar talking yam was not enough to get him to Give It Up, Already! Reality knocks and there is nobody there, there.

Myrina

(12,296 posts)
3. Aaaaah yes, the Christian Persecution Syndrome at work ...
Tue May 10, 2016, 03:12 PM
May 2016

.... they are "fighting" the long battle to turn the US into a Dominionist Theocracy ... only then will they feel "free".

What the everlovin' fuck is wrong with those people??

Takket

(21,639 posts)
9. well, its kind of apples and oranges
Tue May 10, 2016, 03:30 PM
May 2016

The slavery struggle took so long because of the strangehold that racism and greed had on the government and the South, as opposed to Cruz's struggle to be president that is taking so long because everyone knows he is a complete and total nutbag. So the situations are a little different.

10. Defeating slavery = keep the fight going = give my husband more money
Tue May 10, 2016, 03:51 PM
May 2016

If Ted would just take the loss and go back to the Senate, where he collects his government-paid salary, then he wouldn't have the chance to make millions on speaking tours and book sales.

it's the "Palin strategy" -- quit your job to make more money. He could even have his own "TED Talks."

kwassa

(23,340 posts)
12. It took 25 years to defeat slavery? Is this the Michelle Bachman history course?
Tue May 10, 2016, 05:34 PM
May 2016

or is Heidi just channeling her?

What ignorance.

Yavin4

(35,446 posts)
14. Maybe she's woozy from the blows to the head that Ted delivered last week.
Tue May 10, 2016, 05:50 PM
May 2016

She should get checked.

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